So we can satisfactorily move on to what followed, I want to go back and talk about what I did after my arrival to cat sit….. which basically was a lot of pastoral hanging out, punctuated with some day trips after my work was done.

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It took two trains, one intercity and one distance (including one hurried hustle to a nearby, different station to catch the TGV); an RER train; two metro transfers; and a bumpy four blocks of rolling my luggage along, but I have arrived in Paris! (more specifically, to the bachelor pad I am renting for the remainder of the week here).

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We interrupt our chronologically ordered blogging for this public service complaint – more adventuring in When Travel Doesn’t Go Smoothly.

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I woke up extra early on my first full day in Europe to be sure I got to my cat-sitting assignment on time. It was some distance outside the city in the opposite direction of where my hotel was located, plus I needed to secure a taxi for the last part of the trip, and I was skeptical they’d be in abundant supply early on a Sunday morning. Continue reading →

So my first evening out and about provided a good reminder that travel can be super cool and also have its off days that make you long to be further deepening your own living room sofa’s ass groove.

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After arrival at the airport, everything proceeded more or less according to plan.  Being a Friday evening (d’oh!  forgot about that when I agreed to be bumped when Delta called me the day before) security lines were insane: packed and moving almost imperceptibly, and the chubby mouse-ear wearing British kid directly in front of me had to be hustled to a hurried exit when he started puking purple sludge into a ziplock bag (note to ziplock bag: Thank you for your fortuitous placement, O Ziplock Bag, or the pudgelet’s purgings would have landed on my bare, wedge-sandaled feet – ewwwww).

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The wildest part of my trip so far was definitely riding the bus from Pine Hills to the airport.

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